345 The King's Choice (II)
Seeing Xiao Ruxun's appearance that he was fine, Na Rui was angry and said: "Don't talk about this, it's true to think of a way, Peng Shiluo is Xiao Wang's hometown, and it is of great significance to Xiao Wang, not to mention that Peng Shiluo still has a granary and an arsenal, and even a training ground for raising war elephants, once it is obtained by Min Qide, the situation will be very bad!" ”
Xiao Ruxun looked at the markers on the map and shook his head. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Your Majesty, although we are very unwilling, but I have to say that we were put together by the Dongwu people, they attacked us first when we didn't react, and caught us off guard, we must do something now to save the current situation."
"Do what?"
"Clear the wilderness, set fire to the city!"
"What ?!!!"
King Narui Xuan was in a hurry and actually soared out of the dolphin sound, but he didn't see that he still had the potential to be a tenor.
Xiao Ruxun pointed to the Burmese army on the map, as well as the Ayutthaya area where they were currently located, and compared the distance between the two armies and Phitsanulok.
"Such a distance difference, unless all the troops in our hands are the Liaodong Iron Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, we can rush thousands of miles to support Peng Shiluo, but we can't do it, when the large army arrives, Peng Shiluo has already fallen, and the Dongwu Army has enough soldiers and food, so we have no chance of winning."
"......"
King Narexuan couldn't say a word.
"Your Majesty, I know you are very reluctant to do this, but it is better to burn it yourself than to be a senior enemy, why did they march into Phitsanulok so quickly? It must be for the sake of food and grass, they are short of food, they can't fight a protracted war, in order to change the situation, they can only feed the war with war, if Phitsanulok's grain storage and arsenal fall into the hands of Min Qide, we will be very troublesome, so, your majesty, you must give this order!
Immediately sent knights to Phitsanulok in the starry night, and ordered the local officials to immediately organize the evacuation of the people, bring as much food and weapons as they can, burn the fire that can't be taken away, and burn the city, and leave the army to entangle with Min Qide, to buy time for the people, all in all, as long as the people are still there, the city can be rebuilt, if the people are gone, there is nothing! ”
Xiao Ruxun's words are very pertinent, and they are the only way he can think of at present.
Yuan Huang, who has not spoken, also expressed his support: "This is the only thing we can do at present, even if we want to transfer troops, we can't gather many troops for a while, twenty or thirty thousand troops will not be the opponent of the Dongwu people in the past, the best way is to set fire to the city, not to leave a grain of rice grain for the Dongwu people, let them pounce in the air, more irritable, so as to expose the flaws, as long as they show the flaws, we have a chance." ”
King Narui Xuan looked at Xiao Ruxun and Yuan Huang, then turned around and covered his face.
These two bastards, this is not their thing, not their country, not their land and people, they are very generous, burned down, how many houses and buildings does Phitsanulok have, and how much does it cost to rebuild? What's more, it is the hometown of King Narexuan, which has a very special meaning for him, and the people in his hometown are also die-hard fans who support him, and he needs them.
But if you don't do this, if Phitsanulok is allowed to be breached, not only will the city not be able to be saved, but also the people will not be able to survive, and then your prestige will be greatly reduced, and you will have to lose a large number of weapons and food, and face a sharper attack by the Burmese army.
Not to mention anything else, he grew up with Min Qide since he was a child, and received a Portuguese-style military education together, and there are some other princes of the puppet kingdom who participated in such education, he is just one of them, and Min Qide, as the prince of the strongest kingdom, has an absolutely condescending attitude towards them, he can only learn his best, his grades can only be his best, his strength can only be his strongest, and others can only swallow their anger, he is the absolute first.
If it weren't for his father's reluctance to sacrifice his sister's happiness and give his sister to Mang Yinglong, who was fifty-four years old at the time, as a concubine, and let him ravage, he might not have been able to return to the country early to accumulate strength, so as to break free from the control of Burma, but his sister would have been very miserable, and died within a few years.
Back then, on the way back to China, he thought about it, he realized that the fate and future of himself and the country had to be obtained by sacrificing his sister's happiness and life, so isn't this country, and these cowardly men, the biggest culprit?
From then on, he swore that he would never let any weak woman sacrifice herself for the survival of the country, nor would he allow himself to be cowardly and not allow himself to surrender.
Before the Ming declared war on Burma, he and his strong character led Siam, which had just gained freedom and was not as good as Burma, to resist the Burmese army's five attacks, and did not admit defeat and surrender once, and the worst one was beaten to the bottom of the national capital, besieged for nine months, isolated, but in the end, the Burmese did not let the superior Burmese enter.
His strong and unyielding character of not admitting defeat has been fixed, and his spirit has become an eternal totem of a nation, and his status in the hearts of the Thai people is equivalent to the status of Emperor Wudi of Han in the hearts of the Chinese, a heroic spirit that will never be forgotten or erased.
He will not allow himself to throw in the towel, or he will kill himself.
Faced with such a situation, he knew that he had to make a choice, the same choice he made when he knew why he could leave the humiliating environment and return to his father, whether to save his body in the future to save the country, or to sacrifice his life to save his sister, although it may not necessarily be successful.
The hero is extremely strong, and the leader knows how to judge the situation, swallow his anger when necessary, the leader will not admit defeat, but it does not mean that the leader will not be flexible, Nari Xuan is a hero, but he is more of a leader, the hero belongs to him personally, the leader belongs to the whole country, he will not put the whole country in danger because of his personal circumstances, he knows the priorities, just as he decided to return to the country immediately.
So, King Narexuan finally made a decision.
Sent people to gallop to Phitsanulok Province in the starry night, and ordered the local officials of Phitsanulok to immediately organize a large retreat of the people, take away as much as possible what they can take, and pile up all the things that cannot be taken away, and the local garrison must hold on to the last moment, only after the people have all retreated can they retreat, and the whole city will be set on fire during the retreat, and no supplies will be left to the Burmese.
When he made this decision, Yuan Huang looked at Xiao Ruxun with very strange eyes, Xiao Ruxun looked at Yuan Huang with a heart, and both of them understood their respective meanings.
Let's not talk about it for the time being, but they all know that this person will be very reliable and trustworthy when they are friends, but it will be very scary to become an enemy one day.